Take a flight with Flower the fruit bat!

This is "flower," a captive-born short-tailed fruit bat that lives at the Organization for Bat Conservation's Bat Zone at Cranbrook Institute of Science in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. The video was shot in slow motion to highlight the amazing beauty of the only flying mammal. Short-tailed fruit bats live in Central and South America, have a 6-inch wingspan, and feed on fruit. They have a funny nose that sticks up like a rhinoceros horn, that they use to emit high-pitched sounds (echolocation) to find their way in the dark. For more information: www.batconservation.org

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• fruit bat
• bats
• flight
• slow motion